Running-gear



(No Model.)

A. T. DIGKEY.

RUNNING GEAR." No 389,554. Patented Sept. 18, 1888.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ANTHONY 'I. DICKEY, OF PAOLI, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO J. F. FAULK- NEE,OF BIRDSEYE, INDIANA.

RUNNING-GEAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 389,554, datedSeptember 18, 1888.

Application filed June 6, 1887. Serial No. 240,489. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ANTHONY T. DIoKEY, a citizen of the United States,residing at Paoli, in the county of Orange and State of Indiana, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in RunningGear forVehicles, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

To this end my invention consists in particulars of construction andcombinations, which will be hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of the front axleand its adjuncts. I I; Fig. 2 is a similar view of the rear part of thetruck. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the rear bolster and its circle-irons.Fig. 4 is aplan view of the front and rear parts of the truck connectedby the reach. Fig. 5 is a side elevation of the front bolster. Fig. 6 isa plan view of the rear section of the reach.

The parts of the structure are lettered corrcsponclingly in the severalfigures. The tongue A is secured to the hounds B, which in turn aresecured to the front axle, O, as usual. Extending rearward from thecenter of the hounds Bis a false hound, G, terminatingjust in front ofthe axle O, the forward end of the front section, D, of the reach 3 barbeing secured thereto after passing between the axle O and itssand-hoard N. The rear ends of the hounds B are connected by a brace, F,to the center of which is secured the rear .end of the front section, D,of the reach. The

front ends of a coupling-hound, E, are secured to hound B just in rearof the axle and in a horizontal plane therewith and with the sec tion Dof the reach-bar, the rear end being extended back just in rear of thecross-brace .0 F and fitted at top and bottom with stout wrought-ironplates G, properly bolted to the coupling-hounds E, and providedcentrally with an opening, 9, as shown, to receive a coupling-bolt, K.

The rear hounds, I, terminate at the forward end in stout iron plates H,between which the forward end of the rear section, J, of the reach isadj ustably secured, the rear ends of the rear hounds, I, being rigidlysecured to the rear axle, O, as is usual, and said axle being providedcentrally with an ironwearing-plate, P,

on which the rear bolster, Q, turns, and near the ends with curvedtrack-irons M to support the ends of the rear bolster in turning curves.These track-irons or circle-irons M are further supported byangle-braces L, secured centrally to the front and rear sides of therear axle, O, and at their ends to the ends of the circle-irons, asshown. The rear section, J, of the reach is of course capable of variousadjustments to give greater or less distanoe between the front and rearaxles.

In operation the center of motion in turning curves will be at the pointwhere the forward end of the rear section, J, of the reach '6 is pivotedto the plates G of the couplinghounds E by the bolt K, and as this pointis designed to be equidistant between the axles, or nearly so, itfollows that the wheels of the rear axle, 0, will run in the tracks madeby the wheels of the front axle, O, the bolsters Q and Q carrying thewagon-body remaining always in the same position with relation to eachother, as they are pivotally secured on their axles, while the axles,when the wagon is turning a curve, assume a position radial to the curvebeing traversed.

Having thus described my invention, whatl claim, and desire to secure byLetters Patent, 1s

A wagon runninggear consisting, substantially as described, of a frontaxle, the hounds rigidly secured thereto, the tongue and false houndssecured to the hounds forward of the axle, the coupling-hounds rigidlysecured to the 85 front houndsin rear of the axle, thefrontreachsection'secured at its ends to the rear ends of the false andcoupling bounds, the cross-brace bolted to the hounds, thecoupling-hounds and forward reach-section, the rear axle and 0 itshounds, the circle'irons secured near the ends of the rear axle andbraced thereto by angle-braces, the rear reach section adj ustablysecured to the rear axle and its hounds and pivotally secured to therear end of the coup- 5 ling-hounds, and the front and rear bolsterspivoted upon their axles.

ANTHONY T. DIGKEY.

Witnesses:

HENRY W. FARVER, CHARLES J. HUBBARD.

